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A sweetheart, of either sex; a gallant, or a mistress; -- usually in a bad sense. [Archaic] Chaucer. Spenser. Shak.

Belonging to the Alemanni, a confederacy of warlike German tribes.

A dance in moderate twofold time, invented by the French in the reign of Louis XIV.; -- now mostly found in suites of pieces, like those of Bach and Handel.

See Alemannic.

A hydrous borate of lime occurring in transparent colorless or white crystals, also massive, in Southern California.

A soldier especially expert and well drilled, who takes his place in front of a military company, as a guide for the others in their exercises; a file leader. He originally stood in front of the right wing. [Written also flugelman.]

A gabeler. Carlyle.

The servant of a man of rank. The count's gentleman, one Cesario. Shak.

The qualities or condition of a gentleman. [R.] Thackeray.

Of, pertaining to, resembling, or becoming, a gentleman; well- behaved; courteous; polite.

The state of being gentlemanly; gentlemanly conduct or manners.

The carriage or quality of a gentleman.

An agent between two parties; a broker; a go-between; any dealer between the producer and the consumer; in Ireland, one who takes land of the proprietors in large tracts, and then rents it out in small portions to the peasantry.

One of the nobility; a noble; a peer; one who enjoys rank above a commoner, either by virtue of birth, by office, or by patent.

Pertaining to an old gentleman, or like one. Byron.

A soldier armed with a rifle.

One who uses a sickle; a reaper. You sunburned sicklemen, of August weary. Shak.

A boy or man who attends in a stable; a groom; a hostler.

A man at draughts; a piece used in playing games at tables. See Table, n., 10. [R.] Bacon.

A man employed in the whale fishery.